Neat Quotes - Page 12

• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  Charles Handy

  Business, Creativity, Needs

  Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.35, Random House

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• The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

  David Levithan

  Years, World, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Dolls

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• You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Beautiful, Clever, Pages

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 1, sc. 1

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Silly, Mean, Trying

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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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• If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

  Lisa Jewell

  Destiny, Together Again, Two

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• For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

  Richelle Mead

  Order, World, Logic

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• I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Book, Eye, Hands

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• I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.

  e. e. cummings

  Tired, Unique, Moon

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fall, Eye, Forever

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 24, 2011

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• Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Priorities, Lines

  Nora Roberts (2016). “Nora Roberts The Stanislaskis Series Books 1-3: Taming Natasha\Luring a Lady\Falling for Rachel”, p.564, Harlequin

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• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

  Virginia Woolf

  Cat, Order, Waiting

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• To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Work Out, Trying, Way

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• Womens, they ain't like men. A woman ain't gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Men, Hands, White

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.200, Penguin

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• Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.

  Ilona Andrews

  Decision, Want, Easy

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.220, Penguin

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• One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

  Gayle Forman

  Player, Men, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.73, Penguin

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• I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick.

  Ilona Andrews

  Would Be, Idiot, Cry

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• What?" "You're so neat," she said, looking almost embarrassed. He glanced pointedly over his shoulder. "There are four hundred on the other side of this door." "But you're ruining me." "I can't do it neatly?

  Julia Quinn

  Doors, Four, Sides

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jun 04, 2015

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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• Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Abortion, Individual, Conception

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• Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

  John Lyly

  Wine, Profit

  "Euphues". Book by John Lyly, 1578.

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• It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Witty, Heart, Humor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.401

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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• You look in my room and it looks neat enough but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

  Tamera Mowry

  Bed, Looks, Rooms

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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